ASTM can bring this course to your site. The training can be tailored to meet your specific needs and combined with other environmental training. For more information, please contact sales here or call 1-877-909-ASTM.

How You Will Benefit

The USEPA has endorsed the use of risk-based decision-making in underground storage tank (UST) corrective action programs. The course will provide you with an understanding of the differences between RBCA and the traditional corrective action process. The course identifies the role of risk assessment and fate and transport in the RBCA process and emphasizes the importance of exposure assessment. The course describes the concepts of the RBCA process and provides an understanding of the development of the target levels (cleanup levels).

Who Should Attend

Environmental engineers

Underground storage tank owners and removal contractors

City and county managers

Attorneys and insurance underwriters

Petroleum marketers

Petroleum production and storage facilities personnel

Topics Include

Step-by-step overview of the RBCA process

Detailed description of the risk assessment component of the RBCA process

Detailed description of fate and transport component of the RBCA process

Review of the relationship between site assessment, risk assessment, and corrective action activities within the RBCA framework

If your state has a continuing education requirement for license renewal, ASTM training courses and ASTM membership can help you meet that requirement.

Free ASTM Membership

Attend this course and receive a FREE 1-year membership to ASTM International and Committee E50 on Environmental Assessment, Risk Managaement, and Corrective Action. (Applies to new members only and may not be used to renew existing memberships.)

About the Instructors

This course will be taught by a highly qualified instructor who is a member of ASTM Committee E50 on Environmental Assessment.

About ASTM and Sponsoring Committee E50

Recognizing the need for an authoritative risk-based corrective action standard, ASTM pulled together a multifunctional and multidisciplinary collection of professionals. These members of ASTM Committee E50 on Environmental Assessment and its Subcommittee E50.01 on Storage Tanks developed the standard upon which this course is based. For more information on Committee E50 contact Kate McClung or go to our E50 technical committee page.

ASTM Webinar Series

Did you know that ASTM also offers a Webinar Series for Risk-Based Corrective Action? When you purchase the certificate-track webinar bundle, you will have access to all course content - practice problems, recording of webinars, final assessment - for 1 year, PLUS earn a certificate of completion. This bundle creates a highly flexible learning environment for you to study at your own pace for an extended period of time.